Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)

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In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the upward push and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to track the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and up to date energy development on Navajo (DinĂ©) Nation land. Powell’s historical and ethnographic account presentations how the coal-fired power plant project’s defeat equipped the foundation for redefining the legacies of colonialism, mineral extraction, and environmentalism. Examining the labor of activists, artists, politicians, elders, technicians, and others, Powell emphasizes the generative potential of Navajo resistance to articulate a vision of autonomy within the face of twenty-first-century colonial prerequisites. In the end, Powell situates local Navajo struggles over energy technology and infrastructure inside of broader sociocultural life, debates over global climate change, and tribal, federal, and global politics of extraction.

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